Fact Sheets
Health Warning Label Compliance
2019: Pakistan
2017: China | India Smokeless
2016: Bangladesh | Bangladesh Smokeless | Brazil | India | India Smokeless | Philippines
2015: Indonesia | Russian Federation | Thailand | Thailand Roll-Your-Own | Viet Nam
2013: Bangladesh | Brazil | China | Egypt | India | Indonesia | Mexico | Pakistan | Philippines | Russian Federation | Thailand | Turkey | Ukraine | Viet Nam
Suggested Citation for Fact Sheets: Tobacco Pack Surveillance System (TPackSS). Health Warning Label Compliance: {Country – Year} [Fact sheet]. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. {URL}
Example Citation: Tobacco Pack Surveillance System (TPackSS). Health Warning Label Compliance: Bangladesh– 2013 [Fact sheet]. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. globaltobaccocontrol.org/sites/default/files/tpackss_bangladesh_healthwarning_12_13_16.pdf
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Published Articles
Brown J, Smith KC, Welding K, Cohen JE. Misleading tobacco packaging: Moving beyond bans on "light" and "mild". Tobacco Regulatory Science 2020; 6(5):369-378. doi.org/10.18001/TRS.6.5.6.
Brown JL, Smith KC, Zhu M, Moran MB, Hoe C, Cohen JE. Menthol and flavor capsule cigarettes in the Philippines: A comparison of pack design. Tobacco Induced Diseases 2019. doi: 10.18332/tid/112718.
Brown J, Welding K, Cohen JE, Cherukupalli R, Washington C, Ferguson J, Smith KC. An analysis of purchase price of legal and illicit cigarettes in urban retail environments in 14 low- and middle-income countries. Addiction 2017; 112:1854–1860. doi:10.1111/add.13881.
Cohen JE, Brown J, Washington C, Welding K, Ferguson J, Smith KC. Do cigarette health warning labels comply with requirements: A 14-country study. Preventive Medicine 2016. doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.10.006.
Crespi E, Iacobelli M, Welding K, Saraf S, Smith KC, Cohen JE. Industry manipulation of pictorial health warning labels in Pakistan. Tobacco Control 2021. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-056433.
Erinoso O, Welding K, Cohen JE, Smith KC. Cigarette Pack Structure Elements in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Tobacco Regulatory Science 2021. doi: 10.18001/TRS.7.1.6.
Erinoso O, Smith KC, Iacobelli M, Saraf S, Welding K, Cohen JE. Global review of tobacco product flavour policies. Tobacco Control Published Online First: 15 May 2020. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055454.
Iacobelli M, Saraf S, Welding K, Smith KC, Cohen JE. Manipulated: graphic health warnings on smokeless tobacco in rural India. Tobacco Control Published Online First: 29 January 2019. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054715.
Iacobelli M, Smith KC, Washington C, Welding K, Cohen JE. When the tax stamp covers the health warning label: conflicting ‘best practices’ for tobacco control policy. Tobacco Control 2018; 27:119-120. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-053417.
Kleb C, Welding K, Cohen JE, Smith KC. The use of sports imagery and terminology on cigarette packs from fourteen countries. Substance Use & Misuse 2018; 53:5, 873-880. doi:10.1080/10826084.2017.1363236.
Ross H, Vellios N, Smith KC, Ferguson J, Cohen JE. A closer look at 'cheap white' cigarettes. Tobacco Control 2016; 25:527-531. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052540.
Smith KC, Welding K, Iacobelli M, Saraf S, Cohen JE. Headshots on bidi and smokeless tobacco packs in India and Bangladesh: A curious branding element. Tobacco Control Published Online First: 29 September 2020. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-055867.
Smith KC, Welding K, Kelb C, Washington C, Cohen JE. English on cigarette packs from six non-Anglophone low- and middle-income countries. International Journal of Public Health 21 September 2018; doi: 10.1007/s00038-018-1164-9.
Smith KC, Washington C, Welding K, Kroart L, Osho A, Cohen JE. Cigarette stick as valuable communicative real estate: A content analysis of cigarettes from 14 low-income and middle-income countries. Tobacco Control 2017; 26:604-607. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-053148.
Smith KC, Washington C, Brown J, Vadnais A, Kroart L, Ferguson J, Cohen J. The Tobacco Pack Surveillance System (TPackSS): A protocol for assessing health warning compliance, design features and appeals of tobacco packs sold in low- and middle-income countries. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 2015; 1(2):e8. doi:10.2196/publichealth.4616.
Trimble DG, Yu L, Welding K, Smith KC, Cohen JE. Analysis of wedding appeals on cigarette packs in China. Tobacco Control 2021. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-056189.
Trimble DG, Welding K, Smith KC, Cohen JE. Smoke and scan: A content analysis of QR code-directed websites found on cigarette packs in China. Nicotine & Tobacco Research Published Online First: 24 May 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntaa091.
Weiger C, Smith KC, Cohen JE, Dredze M, Moran MB. How Internet Contracts Impact Research: Content Analysis of Terms of Service on Consumer Product Websites. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 2020. doi: 10.2196/23579.
Weiger CV, Smith KC, Hong AY, Cohen JE. Cigarette packs with URLs leading to tobacco company websites: Content analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2020; 22(6):e15160. doi: 10.2196/15160.
Welding K, Kennedy RD, Moran MB, Cohen JE, Smith KC. Natural, organic, additive-free and pure on cigarette packs in 14 countries. Tobacco Regulatory Science 2019; 5(4), pp.352-359(8). doi: https://doi.org/10.18001/TRS.5.4.5.
Welding K. The "Messi" problem of bidi branding in India. Tobacco Control Blog 16 June 2019.
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